SSI is a Mess!

Amnestied Illegals May Receive Social Security As Early As 2017 - By Ryan Lovelace March 9, 2015

Illegal immigrants who take advantage of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will soon collect another benefit: Social Security. Starting in 2017, the Social Security Administration expects that thousands of undocumented immigrants will begin collecting from the Old-Age, Survivor’s, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program as a direct result of the president’s actions. In a letter to Republican senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the SSA’s chief actuary Stephen Goss indicated that an additional 16,000 people will begin collecting OASDI benefits come 2017, and that the number of beneficiaries would continue to increase for 40 years thereafter, topping out at 695,000 people.

 

Goss’s projection may underestimate the number of potential beneficiaries, however, as it assumes that 50,000 fewer illegal immigrants will enter the country each year starting in 2016. What’s more, the SSA is proceeding as if nothing has changed in the wake of a federal judge’s injunction against Obama’s November 2014 executive actions. Goss tells NRO that he expects 58,000 new workers will be covered under the OASDI program later this year, although they will not be eligible to collect benefits immediately…..To Read More……

IG Audit: 6.5 Million People With Active Social Security Numbers Are 112 or Older - By Susan Jones March 9, 2015

An IG audit of the Social Security Administration found that the nation’s database of active Social Security numbers includes more than six and a half million people who are older than 112 years of age. Many people are living longer, but not to age 112 or beyond -- except in the records of the Social Security Administration.  The SSA's inspector general has identified 6.5 million number-holders age 112 -- or older -- for whom no death date has been entered in the main electronic file, called Numident.

The audit, dated March 4, 2015, concluded that SSA lacks the controls necessary to annote death information on the records of number-holders who exceed "maximum reasonable life expectancies." "We obtained Numident data that identified approximately 6.5 million number holders born before June 16, 1901 who did not have a date of death on their record," the report states. Some of the numbers assigned to long-dead people were used fraudulently to open bank accounts…..To Read More….

My Take - Whenever I see this kind a stuff I think of Captain Renault in Casablanca saying "I'm shocked, shocked I tell you" when he found out gambling was taking place at Rick's casino....just before the waiter handed him is winnings. SSI is an economic mess, Medicare is an economic mess, Medicaid is an economic mess, and so is everything the government touches because it's so gigantic it can't be properly controlled or monitored and it's filled with overpaid, underworked incompetents who can’t be fired.  

 

And these are the same people who tell us they’re going to create jobs.  These are the same people who never started a company, never ran a company, never had to meet a payroll and most of whom went to college and then into government and think that never having a real job and being a “community organizer” qualifies someone to run the largest financial organization in the world.  The United States government!   Name just one government employee or agency that predicted Microsoft would become the giant it became. 

 

Solution: Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments, pass a 28th amendment to create term limits for the federal judiciary, and then maybe there will be hope. However, I'm not optimistic!